Penrose & Gurzadyan committed this travesty:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3706
...and the entire CMB analysis community quickly rushed to point out the numerous basic errors done in the statistical analysis.
E.g. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/733/2/L2...
Gurzadyan & Penrose wrote the kind of paper that should never have passed basic peer review. And even when "everyone" pointed out Gurzadyan does not have a clue about data analysis they still stuck to it.
I have no idea about this paper and if Penrose has found a better data analyst to collaborate with this time. Just be aware that while Penrose may be brilliant about the things he knows something about, his name on a data analysis paper is not any guarantee about the data analysis being sound.
Edit: Another less polite and clearer exposition of Gurzadyan's "methods" https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2012/02/aa17344-...
However, if subsequently verified by others - wow - instant Nobel Prize for Sir Roger.
Example of a Gurzadyan takedown. See my comment on OP for more links.
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2012/02/aa17344-...
> in CCC this radiation is enormously concentrated by the conformal compression of the entire future of the black hole
It's indistinguishable from magic, only it's got some math trappings. I read this, and it struck me as basically the 20th century equivalent of demonology and angelology, which was basically just religion fanfic with some feudlistic political science thrown on top. (If God is the king, who is the viscount?)
Makes good hard science fiction. Not something I’d give high priors for having actually happened, but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t look.
That's the thing that makes it crackpot.
Sure Penrose did some good science before, but this isn't it. This is just bullshit. It happens. Tesla made a lot of discoveries with alternating current, and high voltage electricity, but then he died convinced he was talking to a martian civilization, and was on the cusp inventing a death ray. Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA, but in they're later years abandoned molecular biology and started to embrace various quackery that tarnished their legacy.